I have reached that point in the pre-Christmas season where I feel like I’m going nuts. Too much to do! Not enough time!
The good news is that Eldest Son made it home yesterday without incident. His flight was delayed, but not for several hours like it was last year. I made homemade turkin soup last night with my mom’s Thanksgiving carcass, which I’ve had in the deep freeze. E.S. loves turkin soup. That’s soup made from turkey bones, whatever turkey meat falls off the bones while you’re making the broth, then, if you don’t have enough meat, you add cooked chicken breast. Turkey + Chicken = Turkin Soup. And I make a mean turkin soup, if I do say so myself.
We’ll have it again after Christmas, too. With a new dead turkey body. Um, carcass.
Anyway, I’ll still be hanging around the blog (although not every day), because I have some stuff coming up that I don’t want you to miss. I might not post tomorrow (but then again I might…), but drop by Friday, because my group blog, Nobody Writes It Better, is holding a contest from Dec. 18th – Dec. 24th and I’ll announce all the details here when I know them. Which will be sometime on Friday.
I’m also blogging at Nobody Writes It Better on Christmas Eve! Don’t ask me how I get these dates when I’m one of the two blog schedulers. Let’s just say I don’t believe in fiddling with my dates at the expense of another member’s. Because I am jolly! That’s why.
I have no idea what I’ll blog about. Rudolph seems a fair bet, but you’ll have to wait until Dec. 24th to find out why.
Is anyone else getting caught up in crazy Christmas preparations?
Because I am jolly!
You and Santa, Cindy. 🙂 Glad your son made it home safely. The Turkin sounds delish. I’m hungry!
I finished my shopping today. So yay!
Good for you, Edie. I’m not finished. I have to do some wrapping and take stock of things. Plus, my desk is a mess!
I will be working Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and again for the New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. I will have to miss out on the fun at my husband’s family Christmas held on Christmas Eve. Everyone brings a gift for a guy and a girl, unless your single then you only have to bring one. If you have children tooyoung to be in the adult range yet you bring a gift for them marked for them. After everyone eats dinner in this case it’s grab a plate fill it, grab a chair and don’t move. You get up for seconds your chair becomes the property of someone else. My husband is the oldest of nine kids, and my mother in law has 13 grandkids, 16 great grandkids. Nearly all of them willbe there except for maybe 2 or 3 of the grandkids. At Thanksgiving there were 40 people there ranging from 82 (my mother in law) to her youngest great granddaughter who is 1. After everyone eats it is time for presents. First the kids get theirs someone calls their names and hands out their gifts. Then it’s the fun time for the adults. The guys go first for some reason usually. They draw a number from the hat someone has counted noses to determine how many slips of paper are needed. Then number 1 goes and chooses his gift. Number 2 has the option of picking a gift from under the tree or taking what number 1 has and if this happens number one gets to pick again. This process continues a gift canonly be “stolen” twice. Then it’s dead you’re stuck with it. Because when they steal they give you their gift.
I forgot to mention the gifts are sorted between the two sexes. After the guys finish the ladies take their turn. It has turned into an extremely fun thing. It came about out of necessitity as the kids turned into adults and more kids arrived. Drawing names became confusing and hard to buy for the person you drew. So they went to this and it is much more fun.
That sounds like a ton of fun, Kathy!